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The Socialist Equality Party in the United States held a summer school from August 1 through August 6. It was devoted to an analysis of the major social and political events in the US and internationally since the previous SEP school, held in July of 2019.

For roughly half a year, I’ve been running a series of interviews here on TK called “Meet The Censored,” with the aim of highlighting the scope of a growing Internet censorship issue. From now on, “Meet the Censored” articles will be released in pairs. The speech debate has become so partisan that people now often cheer news that this or that person has been kicked off the Internet — this is an increasingly common reaction. When I profiled World Socialist Web Site writer Andre Dam...

Internet Censorship Around the world, capitalist governments are working with Facebook, Google and other giant companies to censor the internet and block the spread of socialism. In late April 2017, Google announced the implementation of new search algorithms which heavily censored access to the World Socialist Web Site and other left wing, anti-war and progressive websites. Similar measures have since been introduced by Facebook and Twitter. The WSWS has taken the lead in exposing this conspi...

The Lancet is right in blasting US capitalism, easily the most savage, virulent and cynical of all First World strains of neoliberalism, but they need to look homeward, too. British duopolists—Tories and Labour— are busy gnawing at the foundations of the UKs NHS, long the pride of the countrys onetime strong safety net.  On Thursday, the British medical journal The Lancetpublished its official report, three years in the making, on the Trump administration’s health care record. The repor...

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Capitalism versus socialism: The pandemic and the global class struggle 8 February 2021 On Sunday, February 7, the WSWS hosted an online meeting entitled, “Capitalism vs. Socialism: The pandemic and the global class struggle.” The speakers were SEP (US) National Secretary Joseph Kishore, SEP (US) National Chairman and WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North, WSWS writers and leading SEP (US) members Patrick Martin and Andre Damon, Johannes Stern, a leading member of the So...

WSWS’s fight against Facebook censorship draws international support The World Socialist Web Site, Socialist Equality Party (SEP) and International Youth & Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) have received an outpouring of support internationally following the announcement on Friday that Facebook had deleted the accounts of leading members of the SEP and shut down the page of the IYSSE at the University of Michigan. The widespread support—including letters to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg,...

January 26, 2021 By Caitlin JOHNSTONE There has been a purge of left-wing accounts from social media, with socialist organizations being targeted on Facebook and multiple Antifa-associated accounts suspended from Twitter. “We have just confirmed that Facebook has disabled the page of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality at the University of Michigan, as well as the accounts of all admins,”  World Socialist Website editor tweeted today. “This is an unprecedented att...